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8 Essential Skills Every Project Manager Needs0
- Guest Post, Project Management
- September 15, 2021
While the complexity of project management is daunting, it also offers many benefits to your business. By delegating responsibility and goals to a team, you can ensure long-term success with higher quality results at a reduced cost. When faced with an overwhelming task like launching a new product or improving processes in every department for
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5 Ways for Fostering Innovation in Your Workplace0
- Innovation
- September 13, 2021
In business, it’s critical to adapt to and create change to stay ahead of the competition. When you foster a culture of innovation in the workplace, the payoff can be greater business achievement. It can’t just be the members of your leadership team who are tasked with coming up with ideas to do things better
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Lean Quote: Work Place Stress and Anxiety0
- Lean Quote
- September 10, 2021
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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5 Steps to Facilitating a Great Lessons Learned Session0
- Engagement, Respect For People
- September 8, 2021
Real learning comes from a period of reflection. Lessons learned are an informal conversation where you look at a project in retrospect. It is done after project completion, usually conducted as a meeting involving the project manager and key representatives within the project. During the lessons learned meeting everyone shares their perspective on what they
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Happy Labor Day – 2021!0
- Other
- September 6, 2021
Happy Labor Day to all my American readers! For a lot of people, Labor Day means two things: a day off and the end of summer. However, Labor Day is a day set aside to pay tribute to working men and women and acknowledges the value and dignity of work and its role in American
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Lean Quote: Hard Work and Labor Day0
- Lean Quote
- September 3, 2021
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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Lean Tips Edition #176 (Tips #2851 – 2865)0
- Lean Tips
- September 1, 2021
For my Facebook fans you already know about this great feature. But for those of you that are not connected to A Lean Journey on Facebook or Twitter I post daily a feature I call Lean Tips. It is meant to be advice, things I learned from experience, and some knowledge tidbits about Lean to
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Lean Roundup #147 – August 20210
- Lean Roundup
- August 30, 2021
A selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of August 2021. You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here. Piloting Continuous Improvement – Jon Miller discusses how a pilot can be an effective way to roll out continuous improvement. Rather than Blaming Employees, Managers Must Take Responsibility for Problems
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Lean Quote: The Things We Miss and The Violin0
- Lean Quote
- August 27, 2021
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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